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President Gordon Gee invites you to commemorate WVU's 150th birthday in a series of events throughout the year.

On Feb. 7, 2017, WVU will kick off the celebration of its 150 years as the state's land-grant flagship university – and at the same time recognize the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design as the foundation from which the entire University grew.

Joseph Moritz, professor of animal and nutritional sciences at West VirginiaUniversity, has been selected as one of five finalists for West Virginia Professor of the Year by the Faculty Merit Foundation of West Virginia.

Chicken. It's what's for dinner in most American households, according to recent data. With projections for a continued rise in poultry consumption, the importance for the poultry industry to produce the healthiest chickens possible remains paramount. A $25,000 gift from the Briles Family Foundation has made it possible for one West Virginia University researcher to focus on this very outcome in the months ahead.

An organization that brings awareness to the nation?s coal miners has endowed a scholarship at West Virginia University to help educate the next generation of mining engineers.

The Mountain State Business Index increased 0.4 percent in January and, following minor revisions to previous months, has posted gains of 0.2 percent or better in four out of the past five months.

A post-doctoral researcher and two graduate students in the Department of Mining Engineering at West Virginia University have received awards from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

It currently takes 10 years and more than $1 billion to get a promising drug from the bench to the bedside in the U.S. pharmaceutical market, but a team of three West Virginia University graduate students have developed a new solution to the archaic and inefficient use of laboratory animals in testing these drugs.

Two assistant professors at West Virginia University have been named the inaugural J. Wayne and Kathy Richards Faculty Fellows in Engineering.

West Virginia University Libraries’ West Virginia & Regional History Center is seeking copies of or information about three African-American newspapers published in the early 20th century in Huntington in an effort to preserve their content through the National Digital Newspaper Program.